Chinese painting / Sumie course : painting different orchid

Prepare orchid painting materials by selecting hard contour brushes, a mixed-hair brush, a large soft-hard brush, ink, and a palette of yellow, orange, eosin, blue, carmine, and white.

Analyze the structure of the lan orchid in traditional Chinese painting, identifying two petals, two big sepals, the labellum, and the column, then prepare for boneless style painting.

Learn the boneless orchid leaf technique using gray ink and water, mastering curved strokes, thick and thin line variations, and lift-press-lift control to create twisted, tapered leaves.

Arrange orchid leaves with varied sizes and directions, highlighting a main leaf for a neat arrangement. Use dark gray ink with a medium brush to paint pointed strokes from the root.

Learn to paint orchids in black and gray ink using a simplified three-dot labellum technique. Arrange petals and sepals in sequence and practice in different directions.

Mix eosin red with white to create pink, load the brush with pink, dip deep red on the tip, and paint the petals and sepals with light press and drag.

Combine yellow with pink to paint orchids in a sumi-e-inspired approach, mastering color mixing to convey form, shading, and vibrant floral expression.

Learn to paint a lan orchid with two blossoms and a three-dot labellum, mix colors for the stem and sheath, and place leaves with press-and-lift.

Demonstrate hui orchid painting by blending two or three colors on the brush to create petals with gradual color and lightness. Arrange a main leaf with alternating left and right.

Explore the structure of the Phalaenopsis orchid, compare sepal and lip shapes with other orchids, and practice painting one more bud in a sumi-e style.

Discover techniques for painting flowers in a sumie style, focusing on mixing colors and applying them in the center to render orchids with expressive strokes.

Practice painting leaves with blue and yellow ink, using two strokes and pressing the brush while dragging downward. Observe color depth differences and place larger leaves on the left.

Load your brush with pink, dip the tip in red, press right for first stroke and left for the second to form petals, then add a single-stroke sepal and leaves.

Load the brush with pink and a touch of purple, mix with white, and apply half white, half color to orchid petals while considering the composition you envision.

Learn to draw the queen of orchid, Cattleya, and highlight the sheath that resembles a leaf.

Use pink color, we do the lip first, and keep some space for the white.

Paint a yellow cattleya orchid using red for the lip and yellow with orange, keeping the brush tip up and inward to shape petals and sepals while half wet.

Explore sumi-e painting of the purple cattleya in the Chinese painting sumi-e course, focusing on orchid subjects.